Build a Human Empire by Creating Clans

He always acted like he was afraid of everything.

‘He was a person who would lose his energy just by looking at him.’

However, Edar in front of him was different.

Are you averting your eyes at the enemy on the top of the castle wall?

Or are you stuttering while addressing them?

Or are you cowering and trembling as if frightened?

There was no form of Edar now.

‘Rather, the person who resembles him… Duke Sudret, he really resembles him.’

A portrait seen when visiting the duke’s mansion for an engagement.

The appearance of a young peacock with divinity as befits a portrait of an aristocrat.

In that painting, Duke Sudret resembles Edar now.

No, the present Edar looked more dignified than the portrait.

‘How can a person change like this?’

She couldn’t understand his change.

No matter how much I thought about it, nothing reasonable came to my mind.

If only the atmosphere and behavior had changed, I would have been convinced somehow.

What changed was his position.

‘He said he conquered northern Wallachia.’

A lingering topic in social circles.

An abandoned illegitimate son became the master of northern Wallochia.

Some commented that it was the virtue of being an Orc’s servant.

Based on rumors that the Orcs had annihilated the Wallochian army.

‘Is it really so?’

She couldn’t imagine.

The image of Edar over there obeying someone.

“…”

“Ugh! kill! Kill me now!”

Haral’s cry took her out of her thoughts.

A fool who believed in my family and talent.

The idiot squealed with tears and runny nose.

Even after the blood has stopped and the bandages are applied, the pain remains the same.

‘If I hadn’t been bluffing in the first place, I wouldn’t have been hurt.’

It was an attempt to catch the spear thrown by Edar’s escort, but failed.

When the escort threw the spear he had thrown back, he was furious and tried to catch it and throw it.

‘It’s pitiful.’

She looked at him with cold eyes.

The culprit that gave her a headache the past few days.

He was the fiancé sent by the ducal family in place of Edar.

‘Although the engagement hasn’t been decided yet.’

Since it was a proposal from the Duke of Sudret, it was virtually confirmed.

Even though I broke off the engagement to Edar earlier, I sent the second one.

It was an expression that the duke was seriously aiming for the Marquis of Loisene.

‘We’re brothers, but we have nothing in common.’

Haral Sudlet visits the Marquis family to see his fiancée.

She struggled with him for several days to get a grip on his personality.

If the old Edar was an incompetent and self-confident coward, Haral was a wretch with great talent and overconfidence.

A madman who runs amok as if the world is his.

‘I wish I could be a little calmer at this point.’

Great talent in a good family.

It was clearly visible how much the duke and duchess had been wrapped up in it.

It must have been the exact opposite of the harshness the two had treated Edar.

If so, isn’t this the first time you’ve been hit by someone?

Yulia let out a low sigh.

I wish I could learn to be humble at this point, thinking.

“miss.”

The vassal spoke cautiously.

“What would you like to do?”

“I’m telling you to kill me!”

The vassal pretended not to hear Haral’s clamor and ignored it.

‘What should I do?’

She knew what vassal meant.

What are you going to do with the current situation in confrontation with Edar?

They asked whether they would fight or let them go without a fight.

‘There’s nothing I can’t do if I want to fight.’

She saw the soldiers she was leading.

Soldiers who led on behalf of a father who could not wake up from a hospital bed.

Even in the midst of chaos in the territory, more than 10,000 people gathered.

Twice as many troops as Edar’s soldiers lined up in front of them.

Even more so, isn’t she in the position of a defender?

‘but···.’

But I didn’t think I could win.

Even though she was obviously overwhelming in terms of position and numbers.

“…”

She saw her vassals awaiting her decision.

Their faces showed the same hesitation as hers.

Just then, a headache came and I frowned.

Placing her right hand on her forehead, she looked at Edar.

He was looking at her too, and his lips moved in silence.

– Do you have any reason to fight me?

“Oh,” she said involuntarily.

‘The reason to fight him…’

Edar is Sudret’s eldest son.

I’m a vassal of Wallochia, but didn’t you visit as a sudlet?

‘If he’s not targeting Germania, there’s no reason to fight.’

I glanced at the second son of Sudret, who was still crying.

He said he was the second son, but he was actually the third son.

It’s just that the first one in front of me was cut off, so I became the second one.

‘Why should I sacrifice myself in a family quarrel?’

Isn’t it obvious why Edar led the military?

There was no one in this country who did not know the relationship between Edar and Sudret.

The Marquis of Loisene gathered an army because Edar’s soldiers appeared in the Marquis’ territory, not for the purpose of fighting Edar.

Edar had no reason to fight if he had no intention to fight.

“Why are you ignoring me! I’m that b*tch’s fiancé!”

engagement? It was de facto, and it wasn’t even a marriage contract.

Officially, the Sudret and Loesene were Southerners.

Even a single soldier knew this, so he didn’t even look at it.

“…”

After thinking, she raised her hand and waved it up and down.

“Put down your weapon.”

“what? What are you talking about!”

“Be quiet.”

“what! you i-”

“Shut up!”

A clap— With a sound, Haral’s head turned to the side.

Heo-eok, the sound of gasping for breath spread.

Haral blankly raised his left hand and touched his cheek.

Yulia raised her eyebrows and raised her voice.

“You are neither the Duke of Sudret nor the Marquis of Loisene. Not even my husband! So stop crying and shut up!”

Hiccup

Haral opened his eyes wide and hiccupped.

She chinned the vassals.

“You guys follow me.”

“miss! Are you sure you want to leave?”

“I need to talk to you myself.”

“Dangerous!”

The vassals tried to stop her.

She ignored them and went straight down the gatehouse.

Each of the retainers sighed and followed her outside.

“It’s been a while, Yulia.”

Standing in front of the castle gate, Edar smiled at her.

She was startled by his smile, which she had never seen before.

“…a lot has changed. Edar.”

Edar, she remembers, was always depressed.

I didn’t know what laughter was and I always shrank in fear.

The Edar in front of him was the exact opposite of the Edar in his memory.

He greeted her with a bright, energetic, natural smile.

It felt so awkward that Yulia tried to smile after him, but the corners of her mouth trembled.

“is it.”

“yes. I feel like I have become a completely different person.”

he shook his head.

That’s right, it has to be, he muttered to himself.

“I knew you would come. I didn’t expect you to come with that idiot.”

“I didn’t bring you here because I wanted to.”

“is it? Sudret must have had a hand.”

He laughed as if he understood.

“Why did you come back?”

“Do I need a reason to go back to my house?”

“Isn’t it too loud for going back home?”

She pointed to Edar’s soldiers.

There was no thump, thump, thud until a little while ago.

Instead, he stood still and focused only his eyes on her.

Her gaze gave her goosebumps.

It was as if the dolls lined up were observing her.

“Why did you bring an army?”

“To protect me.”

“Protection? Not an invasion?”

Edar let out smoke and snorted.

“Aggression? With only 6,000 people, who?”

I was speechless for a moment.

As I said before, if there is a grudge against Edar, it is only Sudret.

Is Sudret a force to be trampled upon by an army of only 6,000 men?

Didn’t Yulia also urgently collect over 10,000?

Sudret was able to gather several of them with a single gesture.

“Do you understand now? That your question makes no sense?”

“But there are too many of them.”

Edar shrugged.

“I have nothing to say other than that it can’t be helped. The person who was targeting me was so strong that I felt like I had to protect me at all. You should be well aware of that.”

The target is, of course, the Duke of Sudlet.

She couldn’t say emphatically, “I don’t know, no.”

“…That’s your argument.”

“then? Should I die to prove it?”

“…”

she pursed her lips.

I felt like the conversation was drying up.

He let out a small sigh and shook his head.

“Are you thinking of going back? really?”

“does not exist. Let me go back after work.”

In reply, she took a few steps and whispered to him.

“I heard what you did in Wallochia. Don’t you have to come back? When you come back, you will definitely fight Sudret, and they will try to kill you, but you still want to come?”

“hmm.”

he was calm

as if it were a natural sound.

“The fact that Sudret is your enemy is no different than all of Germania being your enemy. Do you know that too?”

“Can you not know? Isn’t Sudret the king of Germania?”

“Not a king, not yet.”

Edar laughed.

“No matter what the situation is, I have to go to Sudlet. I have work to do.”

“You still can’t tell me why?”

“If I had to tell you why, I would make the excuse that I came to participate in the founding of Germania.”

Julia slowly opened her eyes.

“You are a Wallochian vassal.”

“The blood that flows is the sadlet. Even though I was insulated.”

Edar erased his smile and put on a rather serious expression.

“I will say it again. Julia of Roesene. As a descendant of Sudret’s blood, I want to return to my hometown. open the way.”

“…”

She looked straight at him.

He didn’t avoid her gaze.

In the past, it trembled and bowed like an aspen tree, but not anymore.

On the contrary, it was she who trembled.

She felt pressure in the eyes of unknown depth.

My body trembled as if I was facing a very large being.

She clasped her hands together and slowly turned her face away.

“…If you returned with the qualifications of a sudlet.”

Julia bit her lip.

The words “pass by” did not come out of my mouth.

After a brief hesitation, he replied with a trembling voice.

“Can you give me a little… a little? I can’t get them all in. Because I am also responsible.”

half.

Julia said to cut Edar’s army in half.

If you cut it in half, you will open the border fortress.

At that, Edar burst into laughter.

“Half is not a little bit.”

Julia’s face turned red.

“More, even less…”

“You are not good at bargaining, Yulia. It’s a bad idea to call out loud at first to cut it down little by little. Bargaining should be started by making it impossible for the other party to refuse.”

Edar smiled, and I said, for example.

“I will make your father well.”

“yes?”

“I will cure your father, the Marquis of Loisene, and I will also catch the cause of the disease that is circulating in your estate. I can’t refuse an offer like this. Isn’t it?”

Yulia narrowed her eyes.

I couldn’t decide if I was joking or being serious, so I stared blankly at him.

But her mouth naturally raised a question.

“If you can… what do you want from me?”

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cool, cool…

The old man gave a coughing laugh.

“so? You brought your ex-fiance home? Leave your current fiancé with a hole in his hand in a carriage? Even though she is my daughter, she is very confident.”

The old man was Julia Loegene’s father, the Marquis of Loegene.

The Marquis was seriously ill, so he lay flat on the bed and coughed continuously.

Seeing her father’s scrawny figure, Yulia put on a complicated expression.

“And you… have really changed. many.”

However, his eyes were clear and undisturbed.

“As if it was overwritten by another being. Isn’t it?”

I smiled without answering.

The Marquis tried to speak later, but coughed again.

Blood phlegm came out of the cough so loud that the upper body jumped up.

“father!”

“You are seriously ill.”

“The time has come.”

The Marquis trembled and spat out.

“But, can you heal me?”

I nodded.

“how? Are you saying you know what this disease is?”

“It’s called the emperor’s curse.”

“Then is there nothing more to say? Their blood that seeps into my body is killing me. Only the emperor, the owner of all blood, can bring out this blood.”

There’s nothing you can do about it, the Marquis assured.

“well.”

I saw the ring on my index finger.

The ring glowed bright red and whispered something to me.

“There is nothing I do not know about the Emperor, Marquis of Rogene.”

the price of believing in god

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I headed for the Marquis of Roegene.

The reason, as I said, was to cure the disease of the Marquis of Loegene.

“Something feels empty.”

Sister Rachel let out a pity as she saw the soldiers following her.

The soldiers who accompanied the camp were one hundred of their own, and five hundred conscripts.

The rest were put on standby across the border for a while.

“I think it’s too small no matter what the purpose of the visit is.”

“No, this is good enough.”

She tilted her head.

“From the beginning, when I went to the Marquis Family, I was thinking of taking only the current number of people.”

“why?”

The reason is to provoke the Duke of Sudret.

“The provocation serves two purposes. One is to make the Duke of Sudret feel threatened and gather as many forces as possible.”

To do so, the number of soldiers I mobilized must be large.

“How much of a threat will you feel if the child you kicked out to die returns with only a few dozen or a few hundred?”

6,000 conscripts was a reasonable number to pose a threat to the duke.

A number that threatens Sudret without provoking Germania.

“Is Germania that strong?”

“There are too many twigs and thorns rather than strong.”

A family directly related to the Wallochians is at most a few mosquitoes.

It was also a baby mosquito that had just started nesting in the capital city.

However, Germania was a country that fit the word pandemonium.